[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Packaging delta

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Hello,

Le 26/10/2020 à 23:19, Dan Davison a écrit :
> Hi, I'm the main author and maintainer of 
> https://github.com/dandavison/delta 
> <https://github.com/dandavison/delta>. There's interest among delta 
> users in getting delta into debian; would you be able to help/advise 
> on next steps? Threads with some discussion are
>
> https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/26 
> <https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/26>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=944028 
> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=944028>

I had a quick look and it requires a few things:

* bytelines in the archive (I just uploaded in NEW)

* I uploaded some updates (ex: structopt) to match the version you are 
expecting

* a bunch of crates already in Debian to be updated (ex: console, 
syntect, etc).

Some of them requires new packages too. ex: terminal-size

If you want to see delta sooner in Debian, the best way would be to 
relax the deps to
make sure it can be built using the packages in the current archive.

Cheers,

S